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18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

stories of the devil and his bath and his grandmother are but a vulgarization of heathen notions about the thundergod. lasicz 47 tells us: percuna tete mater est fulminis atque tonitrui quae solem fessum ac pulverolentum balneo excipit, deinde lotum et nitidum postera die emittit. it is just matertera, and not mater, tliat is meant by teta elsewhere. christian mythology among the slav and certain asiatic nations has handed over the thunderer's business to the prophet elijah, who drives to heaven ioi the tempest, whom a chariot and horses of jive receive, 2 kings 2, 11. in the servian songs 2, 1. 2, 2 he is expressly called gromovnik iliya lightning and thunder (munya and grom) are given into his hand, and to sinful men he shuts up the clouds of heaven, so that they let no rain fall on the

the knife of a virtuous man that can carve the first slice. at other times, even a live boar makes its appearance in the hall, and a bold hero chops its head off. at oxford they exhibit a hoars head on christmas day, carry it solemnly round, singing: caput apri defero, reddens laudes domino (see suppl. those aestyans may prove a link of fellowship between the germanic nations and the finnish and asiatic; it is well worth noticing, that the tcherkass (circassians) worship a god of woods and hunting, mesitch by name, who rides a wild hoar ivith(/olden bristles to most of the other gods tame animals are sacred, to fro the daring dauntless boar, as well befits a god of the chase. perhaps also a huge hoar with white tusks^ who in slavic legend rises foaming out of a lake, is that of a kindred

vinity of her nature and the suddenness of her departure. but the swan or bvill, into which zeus transformed himself, can only be explained on the supposition that leda too, and lo and europa, whom he was woomg, were thought of as swan-maidens or kine. the form of animal would then be determined by the mythus, and the egg-birth of the dioscuri can be best understood in this way (see suppl. in the asiatic legends, it seems to me, the manifestations of deity are conceived deeply and purely in comparison, and nowhere more profoundly than in those of india. the god comes down and abides in the flesh for a season, for the salvation of mankind. wherever the doctrine of metempsychosis prevailed, the bodies of animals even were eligible for the avatara; and of vishnu's ten successive incarnations

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

ly won't do to have a dozen cooks at the broth! if you're working with me, you'll have no time to waste on other people. i fear your "christianity" is like that of most other folk. you pick out one or two of the figures from which the alexandrines concocted "jesus (too many cooks, again, with a vengeance) and neglect the others. the zionist christ of matthew can have no value for you; nor can the asiatic "dying-god- compiled from melcarth, mithras, adonis, bacchus, osiris, attis, krishna, and others- who supplied the miraculous and ritualistic elements of the fable. rightly you ask "what can i contribute" answer: one book. that is the idea of the weekly letter: 52 of yours and 52 of mine, competently edited, would make a most useful volume. this would be your property: so that you get full

ude something of the stoicism of zeno; or of the pickwickianism, if i may use the term, of epicurus. the ideal reaction to phenomena is that of perfect elasticity. it possesses something of the cold-bloodedness of mathematics; and for this reason it seems fair to say, for the purposes of elementary study, that pythagoras is its most adequate exponent in european philosophy. since the discovery of asiatic thought, however, we have no need to take our ideas at second-hand. the yellow school of magick possesses one perfect classic. the tao teh king32. 31* it is interesting to note that the three greatest influences in the world today are those of teutonic hebrews: marx, hertz, and freud. magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 85 32* unfortunately there is no translation a

of piety, thou wilt preserve the fluxible body."35 it appears that the levant, from byzantium and athens to damascus, jerusalem, alexandria and cairo, was preoccupied with the formulation of this school in a popular religion, beginning in the days of augustus caesar. for there are elements of this central idea in the works of the gnostics, in certain rituals of what frazer conveniently calls the asiatic god, as in the remnants of the ancient egyptian cult. the docmagic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 94 trine became abominably corrupted in committee, so to speak and the result was christianity, which may be regarded as a white ritual overlaid by a mountainous mass of black doctrine, like the baby of the mother that king solomon non-suited. we may define the doctrine

ALEISTER CROWLEY TAO TEH KING

writer upon and teacher of yoga from the orthodox shaivite standpoint, and bhikkhu ananda metteya, the great english adept, who was one of my earliest instructors in magick and joined the sangha in burma in 1902, gave me my first groundings in mystical theory and practice. i spent some months of 1901 in kandy, ceylon, with the latter until success crowned my work. i also studied all varieties of asiatic philosophy, especially with regard to the practical question of spiritual development, the sufi doctrines, the upanishads, the sankhya, vedanta, the bagavad gita and purana, the dhammapada, and many other classics, together with numerous writings on the tantra and yoga of such men as patanjali, vivekananda, etc. etc. not a few of these teachings are as yet wholly unknown to scholars. i mad

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ture of matter. the third is the jetziratic world, ovlm hitzirah, olahm ha-yetzirah, or world of formation and of angels, which proceeds from briah, and, though less refined in substance, is still without matter. it is in this angelic world that reside those intelligent and incorporeal beings who are wrapped in a luminous garment, and who assume a form when they appear unto man. the fourth is the asiatic world, ovlm hoshih, olahm ha-asiah, the world of action, called also the world of shells, ovlm hqlipvth, olahm ha-qliphoth, which is this world of matter, made up of the grosser elements of the other three. in it is also the abode of the evil spirits, which are called "the shells" by the qabalah, qlipvth, qliphoth, material shells. the devils are also divided into ten classes, and have sui

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ies "per se, but botanists now consider the two plants to be identical. the old name of cannabis indica, however, has been retained in medicine. cannabis indica simply means cannabis sativa grown in the indies, and cannabis americana means cannabis sativa grown in america. its introduction into western medicine dates from the beginning of the last century, but it has been used as an intoxicant in asiatic countries from time immemorial, and under the name of "hashish,"bhang,"ganja, or "charas, is habitually consumed by upwards of two hundred millions of human beings. the physiological action of cannabis americana is precisely the same as that of cannabis inidca. the effects of this drug are said to be due chiefly to its action upon the central nervous system. it first produces a state of ex

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n in all. these seven circles each contain an equilateral triangle, smaller than a circumscribed one would be. these seven triangles each have an apex radially outward from the center of the figure. each of the seven triangles has a hebrew letter in the center (planetary correspondence, hebrew names of the planets and archangels corresponding to the left and right along and outside the edges, and asiatic place names below the base. here are the inscriptions, left, right, bottom and center, for all triangles, starting with the top and moving clockwise: hb:yod hb:aleph hb:taw hb:bet hb:shin, hb:lamed hb:aleph hb:yod hb:qof hb:peh hb:tzaddi, ephesus, hb:taw. hb:lamed hb:aleph hb:mem hb:koph, hb:mem-final hb:yod hb:dalet hb:aleph hb:mem, pergamos, hb:peh. sic, left and right reversed- weh note

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a well in a wood. background, a casting-net of the stars. dotted about, hounds of various colours, usually red. let's have another slide. same thing, with a fairy floating about. tired? yes. well, sit down and talk about it. tut! tut. how on earth does anybody ever deliberately produce this sort of thing? he doesn't. it just happens. all the gregory powder in the world won't produce it; it's true asiatic cholera, and you can't imitate it. i didn't mean dill-wates; i meant rice-waters. now let no one think that we object to an atmosphere in art. maeterlinck is doubtless just as misty in his symbolism; equally he uses a leitmotiv; equally he relies on mystery to shroud his figures with fascination, terror, or glamour. 328 but the images are themselves perfectly clear and precise. in the mist

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physical culture" 291 the buddha (it is true) did not encourage bloodshed, in spite of his having died from an overfeed of pork, but as mr. a. crowley has said, many of his present-day followers are quite capable of killing their own brothers for five rupees. the western theory that buddhists are lambs and models of virtue is due to the fact that certain western vices are not so congenial to the asiatic as they are to the european; and not because buddhists are incapable of enjoying themselves. 292 buddhism as a schism from the brahminical religion may in many respects be compared with lutheranism as a schism from the catholic church. both buddha and luther set aside the authority of miracles, and appealed to the reason of the middle classes of their day. the vedas were the outcome of ari

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

's night is of equal duration, one day and night of brahma will contain..8.,640,000,000 360 of such days and nights make one year of brahma, equal to. 3,110,400,000,000 100 of such years constitute the whole period of brahma's age, i.e, maha kalpa..3,110,400,000,000 that these figures are not fanciful, but are founded upon astronomical facts, has been demonstrated by mr. davis, in an essay in the asiatic researches; and this receives further corroboration from the geological investigations and calculations made by dr. hunt, formerly president of the anthropological society, and also in some respects from the researches made by professor huxley. great as the period of the maha kalpa seems to be, we are assured that thousands and thousands of millions of such maha kalpas have passed, and as

ALICE A BAILEY07 FROM INTELLECT TO INTUITION

f consciousness from the human to the spiritual kingdom, is hastened and nurtured by a specialized education, called the meditation process, which is superimposed upon a mind widely and wisely cultured. the result of this intensive and individual training has been spectacular in the extreme. the eastern method is the only one which has produced the founders of all the world religions, for all are asiatic in origin. it is responsible for the appearance of those inspired scriptures of the world which have moulded the thoughts of men, and for the coming forth of all the world saviours the buddha, zoroaster, shri krishna, the christ, and others. thus the east has manifested forth, as the result of its particular technique, all the great individuals, who have sounded the note for their particul

ALICE A BAILEY08 A TREATISE ON WHITE MAGIC

nks are recruited from all the ray groups, though the members of the third group (that of the financiers) are found primarily upon the seventh ray, that of ceremonial organisation. in the order of their emergence, they are the groups of philosophers, psychologists and business men. the group of philosophers of more modern date are already powerfully moulding thought, whilst the ancient schools of asiatic philosophers are just beginning to influence western ideas. through analysis, correlation and synthesis, the thought power of man is developed and the abstract mind can be unified with the concrete. through their work therefore that interesting sensitivity of man, with its three outstanding characteristics of instinct, intellect and intuition is brought to a condition of intelligent coordi

ALICE A BAILEY13 PROBLEMS OF HUMANITY

em which will guarantee that the children of the different nations (beginning with the millions of children now demanding education today) will be taught truth, without bias or prejudice- 35- problems of humanity copyright 1998 lucis trust world democracy will take form when men everywhere are regarded in reality as equal; when boys and girls are taught that it does not matter whether a man is an asiatic, an american, a european, british, a jew or a gentile but only that each has an historical background which enables him to contribute something to the good of the whole, that the major requirement is an attitude of goodwill and a constant effort to foster right human relations. world unity will be a fact when the children of the world are taught that religious differences are largely a mat

ALICE A BAILEY14 THE REAPPEARANCE OF THE CHRIST

that the answers to these questions come (and will increasingly come, from two sources: the thinking masses, whose growing intellectual perception is the cause of the revolt from orthodox religion, and from that overshadowing source of truth and light which has unfailingly brought revelation down the ages. the answers will not come, as far as one can see, from any religious organisation, whether asiatic or western. some of these questions can be expressed as follows: why has the church been unable to arrest the overpowering expression of evil, as evidenced in- 74- the reappearance of the christ copyright 1998 lucis trust the late world war? why has religion proved inadequate to the need of humanity? why have the so-called spiritual leaders of the religious world proved themselves incompet

ALICE A BAILEY20 A TREATISE ON THE SEVEN RAYS VOLUME IV ESOTERIC HEALING

ns who find themselves in the path of war. this movement of millions of men everywhere is one of the paramount factors which will condition the new civilisation, and its importance is based upon the fact that in twenty-five years' time men and women will be a hybrid race whose fathers and mothers will be of every imaginable nation; white fathers will have had physical relation with women of every asiatic or african origin, thus producing a fusion of blood which if recognised and rightly handled and developed, from the educational angle and with understanding will express in embryo the nature of the sixth rootrace, and which will be in fact humanity without any racial or national barriers, with no so-called pure blood and exclusive castes, and with a new and virile sense of life because of

ALICE A BAILEY21 EDUCATION IN THE NEW AGE

ing together and discussing the formation of a better system which will guarantee that the children of the different nations (beginning with the millions of children now demanding education) will be taught truth, without bias or prejudice. world democracy will take form when men everywhere are regarded in reality as equal; when boys and girls are taught that it does not matter whether a man is an asiatic, an american, a european, british, a jew or a gentile but only that each has an historical background and history which enables him to contribute something to the good of the whole, and that the major requirement is an attitude of goodwill and a constant effort to foster right human relations. world unity will be a fact when the children of the world are taught that religious differences a

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

ion. the world order, as visioned by hitler, is based upon the subjection of the weak to the rule of a super-germany; it is one in which the life of the little nations will be allowed to go on just in so far as they serve the need of germany. the lesser axis powers are permitted existence only because they benefit german aims italy, to give germany scope in the mediterranean; japan, to handle the asiatic problem which is too large for germany to handle alone. it is an order whose intention is that the- 123- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust best of all industrial and agricultural products shall go to germany and the unwanted residue to the little nations. it is an order in which the educational processes will be controlled by the dominant super-race. all depar

his might include the british empire as a whole, the united states, the scandinavian countries and certain northern european nations, including germany. 2. a union of the latin countries, including france, spain, all the mediterranean countries, the balkan countries (except one or two which might be absorbed into the u.s.s.r, and south america. 3. the united soviet socialist republics and certain asiatic nations working in collaboration with them, such as china, and later japan. these three great blocs would not be antagonistic blocs but simply geographical spheres of influence. they would all three work in the closest unity and economic relation. each nation within the three blocs would preserve its sovereign independence, but between these independent nations and between these blocs ther

ity, with an exalted recognition of god, with an acknowledgment of the fundamental values of christ's teaching, and with a joyful determination to go forward with the work of reconstruction, i call upon those who respond to this vision immediately to set to work. i call you to no organisational loyalties, but only to love your fellowmen, be they german, american, jewish, british, french, negro or asiatic. i call you from your dreams of vague beauty, impossible utopias and wishful thinking to face life as it is today; and then to begin, in the place where you are, to make it better. i call you to the experiment of right human relations, beginning with your own personal relations to your family and friends, and then to the task of educating those you contact so that they also start a similar

ALICE A BAILEY24 A TREATISE ON THE SEVEN RAYS VOLUME V THE RAYS AND THE INITIATIONS

mocratic, and more successful because more mature and experienced, but the "melting pot" of the u.s.a. will provide eventually the outstanding experiment in right relations because of its many races and nationalities all blended together within the borders of one country. 3. the u.s.s.r. is also seeking to blend and unite into one great national project many diverse nations and races european and asiatic and the effort is still largely embryonic. in russia a world ideology is being wrought out which (when proven) can be presented to the world as a model system; this, however, will not come as a result of dictatorship, nor can it be presented aggressively to the world. russia is in reality whether she realises it or not at present undertaking a great experiment in education and, in spite of

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

ng that a constellation so extended should be represented by the author of that book as a great dragon with seven heads, who drew the third part of the stars from heaven and cast them to earth (dupuis, tome iii, p. 255. only dupuis never knew why draco, once the pole-star- the symbol of "guide" guru and director- had been thus degraded by posterity "the gods of our fathers are our devils" says an asiatic proverb. when draco ceased to be the lode-star, the guiding sidereal divinity, it shared the fate of all the fallen gods. seth and typhon was at one time, bunsen tells us "a great god universally adored throughout egypt, who conferred on the sovereigns of the 18th and 19th dynasties the symbols of life and power. but subsequently, in the course of the 20th dynasty, he is suddenly treated a

ht" but the vital question is- are there any good proofs that it has thus grown? the only evidence that is given for it is, that it must be so "since this maya is distinctly assigned to romaka-pura in the west* the maya is evident, since no sanskritist among europeans can tell where that locality of "romaka-pura" was, except, indeed, that it was somewhere "in the west" anyhow, as no member of the asiatic society, or western orientalist, will ever listen to a brahmanical teaching, it is useless to take the objections of european orientalists into consideration "romakapura" was in "the west" certainly, since it was part and parcel of the last continent of atlantis. and it is equally certain that it is atlantis, which is assigned in the hindu puranas as the birthplace of asuramaya "as great a

d in the day of the macedonian greeks, or as that which he is claimed to be by the occultists, in any case his calculations agree entirely with those of the secret records. from fragments of immensely old works attributed to the atlantean astronomer, and found in southern india, the calendar elsewhere men[[footnote(s* see "lectures on the indian literature" p. 253, by prof. a. weber; in trubner's asiatic series* even the maya indians of guatemala had their zodiac from untold antiquity. and "primitive man acted in the same manner independently of time or locality in every age" observes a french writer[[vol. 2, page] 51 what the earth-whirl produced. tioned was compiled by two very learned brahmins* in 1884 and 1885. the work is proclaimed by the best pundits as faultless- from the brahmanic

t the smallest doubt that the kabeiri, the most arcane of all the ancient deities, gods and men, great deities and titans, are identical with the kumaras and rudras headed by kartikeya- a kumara also. this is quite evident even exoterically; and these hindu deities were, like the kabeiri, the personified sacred fires of the most occult powers of nature. the several branches of the aryan race, the asiatic and the european, the hindu and the greek, did their best to conceal their true nature, if not their importance. as in the case of the kumaras, the number of the kabeiri is uncertain. some say that there were three or four only; others say seven. aschieros, achiosersa, achiochersus, and camillus may very well stand for the alter egos of the four kumaras- sanat-kumara, sananda, sanaka, and

the meaning of the apocalyptic hints. first comes en-soph, the "concealed of the concealed" then the point, sephira and the later sephiroth; then the atzilatic world, a world of emanations that gives birth to three other worlds- called the throne, the abode of pure spirits; the second, the world of formation, or jetzira, the habitat of the angels who sent forth the third, or world of action, the asiatic world, which is the earth or our world; and yet it is said of it that this world, also called kliphoth, containing the (six other) spheres[[hebrew, and matter, is the residence of the "prince of darkness" this is as clearly stated as can be; for metatron, the angel of the second or briatic world, means messenger[[angelos, angel, called the great teacher; and under him are the angels of the

early stated as can be; for metatron, the angel of the second or briatic world, means messenger[[angelos, angel, called the great teacher; and under him are the angels of the third world, jetzira, whose ten and seven classes are the sephiroth* of whom it is said that "they inhabit and vivify this world as essential entities and intelligences, whose correlatives and contraries inhabit the third or asiatic world" these "contraries" are called "the shells[[hebrew, or demons* who inhabit the seven habitations called sheba hachaloth, which are simply the seven zones of our globe. their prince is called in the kabala samael, the angel of death, who is also the seducing serpent satan; but that satan is also lucifer, the bright angel of light, the light and life-bringer, the "soul" alienated from

"perhaps the seven manus, the seven brahmadicas and the seven rishis are the same, and make only seven individual persons* the seven brahmadicas were prajapatis, or lords 'of the prajas or creatures' from them mankind was born, and they are probably the same with the seven manus. these seven grand ancestors of the human race were created for the purpose of replenishing the earth with inhabitants (asiatic researches, vol. v. p. 246; and faber adds that "the mutual resemblance of the kabirs, the titans, the rishis, and the noetic family, is too striking to be the effect of mere accident* faber was led into this mistake, and subsequently built his entire theory concerning the kabiri, on the fact that the name of the scriptural[[footnote(s* agruerus is kronos, or saturn, and the prototype of t

f that island (plato speaking only of its last island) beyond the pillars of hercules, in the atlantic ocean, from which there was an easy transition to other islands in the neighbourhood of another large continent (america. it is this "atlantic" land which was connected with the "white island" and this white island was ruta; but it was not the atala and the "white devil" of colonel wilford (see "asiatic researches" vol. viii, p. 280, as already shown. it may well be remarked here that the dvapara yuga lasts 864,000 years, according to the sanskrit texts; and that, if the kali yuga began only about 5,000 years ago, that it is just 869,000 since that destruction took place. again, these figures are not very widely different from those given by the geologists, who place their "glacial period

a paradise of bliss; while in another sense it refers to intellectual man himself, the container of the eden in which grows the tree of knowledge of good and evil: man being the knower thereof. renan and barthelemy st. hilaire, basing themselves "on the most solid inductions" think it impossible to doubt any longer, and both place the cradle of humanity "on the region of the timaus" finally, the asiatic journal* concludes that "all the traditions of the human race gathering its primitive families at the region of their birth-place, show them to us grouped around the countries where jewish tradition places the garden of eden; where the aryans (zoroastrians) established their airyana-vaego or the meru. they are hemmed in to the north by the countries which join the lake aral, and to the sou

one of those arbitrary decisions of modern science which does not carry much weight. we are told that it is after the destruction of "lemuria" by subterranean fires that men went on steadily decreasing in stature- a process already commenced after their physical fall- and that finally, some millions of years after, they reached between six and seven feet, and are now dwindling down (as the older asiatic races) to nearer five than[[footnote(s* see at the end of this stanza "on the duration of ages and cycles[[vol. 2, page] 332 the secret doctrine. six feet. as pickering shows, there is in the malay race (a sub-race of the fourth root race) a singular diversity of stature; the members of the polynesian family (tahitians, samoans, and tonga islanders) are of a higher stature than the rest of

. 58) the above, coming from quarters so discredited by orthodox science, will, of course, be regarded by it as a more or less happy fiction. even the clever work of donnelly, already mentioned, is put aside, notwithstanding that its statements are all confined within a frame of strictly scientific proofs. but we write for the future. discoveries in this direction will vindicate the claims of the asiatic philosophers, who maintain that sciences- geology, ethnology, and history included--were pursued by the antediluvian nations who lived an untold number of ages ago. future finds will justify the correctness of the present observations of such acute minds as h. a. taine and renan. the former shows that the civilizations of such archaic nations as the egyptians, aryans of india, chaldeans, c

ons of "will and yoga- who were called pitar, as were the divine pitars of the first race* see for these traditions the "collection of persian legends" in russian, georgian, armenian, and persian; herbelot's narrative legendes persanes "bibliotheque orientale" p. 298, 387, etc, and danville's memoires. we give in a condensed narrative that which is scattered in hundreds of volumes in european and asiatic languages, as well as in oral traditions[[vol. 2, page] 395 esoteric chronology. in "timaeus" plato says the same. the secret doctrine declaring that most of the later islander atlanteans perished in the interval between 850,000 and 700,000 years ago, and that the aryans were 200,000 years old when the first great "island" or continent was submerged, there hardly seems any reconciliation p

d in the configuration of ancient upsala, the situation and measurements given by the greek sage of the capital of "atlantis" as bailly proved, rudbeck was mistaken; but so was bailly likewise, and still more. for sweden and norway had formed part and parcel of ancient lemuria, and also of atlantis on the european side, just as eastern and western siberia and kamschatka had belonged to it, on the asiatic. only, once more, when was it? we can find it out approximately only by studying the puranas, if we will have nought to do with the secret teachings. three quarters of a century have already elapsed since captain (now colonel) wilford brought forward his fanciful theories about the british islands being the "white island" the atala of the puranas. this was sheer nonsense, as the atala is o

talists in the wrong box. the seventh zone or seventh climate- rather, on the seventh measure of heat: which thus locates it between the latitudes of 24 and 28 degrees north. it is then to be sought on the same degree as the tropic of cancer, whereas england is between the 50th and 60th degrees of latitude. wilford speaks of it as atala, atlantis, the white island. and in vol. viii. of journal of asiatic researches, p. 280, its enemy is called the "white devil" the demon of terror. for he says "in their (the hindu and mahomedan) romances, we see kai-caus going to the mountain of 'as-burj, at the foot of which the sun sets' to fight the dev-sefid, or white devil, the taradaitya of the puranas, whose abode was on the seventh stage of the world, answering to the seventh zone of the buddhists

(the ever-frozen white region) in the vishnu (and other) puranas (book ii ch. iv. and pushkara, with its two varshas, lies directly at the foot of meru. for it is said that "the two countries north and south of meru are shaped like a bow. and that "one half of the surface of the earth is on the south of meru and the other half on the north of meru- beyond which is half of pushkara (vishnu purana, asiatic researches, etc. geographically, then, pushkara is america, northern and southern; and allegorically it is the prolongation of jambudwipa* in the middle of[[footnote(s* every name in the puranas has to be examined at least under two aspects; geographically, and metaphysically, in its allegorical application; e.g, nila, the (blue) mountain which is one of the boundaries to the north of meru

, spoken of by plato, but a large continent, first divided, and then broken later on into seven peninsulas and islands (called dwipas, preceded europe, is sure. it covered the whole of the north and south atlantic regions, as well as portions of the north and south pacific, and had islands even in the indian ocean (relics of lemuria. the claim is corroborated by indian puranas, greek writers, and asiatic, persian, and mohammedan traditions. wilford, who confuses sorely the hindu and the mussulman legends, shows this, however, clearly (see vol. viii, x. and xi. of[[footnote(s* they were called demons, asuras, giants, and monsters, because of their wickedness; and thus their country was likened to atala- a hell, because of that* not on the river nile, surely, but near the nila mountains of t

ho confuses sorely the hindu and the mussulman legends, shows this, however, clearly (see vol. viii, x. and xi. of[[footnote(s* they were called demons, asuras, giants, and monsters, because of their wickedness; and thus their country was likened to atala- a hell, because of that* not on the river nile, surely, but near the nila mountains of the atlas range[[vol. 2, page] 406 the secret doctrine. asiatic researches) and his facts and quotations from the puranas give direct and conclusive evidence that the aryan hindus and other ancient nations were earlier navigators than the phoenicians, who are now credited with having been the first seamen that appeared in the post-diluvian times. this is what is given in the journal of the asiatic society, iii, pp. 325, et seq "in their distress the fe

o repel the attacks of either or of both. the reader can never be too often reminded that, as the abundant quotations from various old scriptures prove, these teachings are as old as the world; and that the present work is a simple attempt to render, in modern language and in a phraseology with which the scientific and educated student is familiar, archaic genesis and history as taught in certain asiatic centres of esoteric learning. they must be accepted or rejected on their own merits, fully or partially; but not before they have been carefully compared with the corresponding theological dogmas and the modern scientific theories and speculations. one feels a serious doubt whether, with all its intellectual acuteness, our age is destined to discover in each western nation even one solitar

d a significance which it hardly has with any other people to this day[[vol. 2, page] 469 the old and the new jehovah. and which it was originally never meant to have by the true kabalist. the lingham and yoni of the modern average hindu is, on the face of it, of course, no better than the rabbinical "holy of holies- but it is no worse; and this is a point gained on the christian traducers of the asiatic religious philosophies. for, in such religious myths, in the hidden symbolism of a creed and philosophy, the spirit of the tenets propounded ought to decide their relative value. and who will say, that, examined either way, this so-called "wisdom" applied solely to the uses and benefit of one little nation, has ever developed in it anything like national ethics. the prophets are there, to

orses (raoul-rochette, loc. cit. de la croix ansee, mem. de l'academie des sciences, pl. 2, nos. 8, 9, also 16, 2, p. 320, quoted in "nat. gen, which proves that so far back as those early days the cross had already become the symbol of human procreation, and that oblivion of the divine origin of cross and circle had been forgotten. another form of the cross is given from the journal of the royal asiatic society (vol. xviii, p. 393, pl. 4 "at each of the four corners is placed a quarter arc of an oviform curve, and when the four are put together they form an oval; thus the figure combines the cross with the circle round in four parts, corresponding to the four corners of the cross. the four segments answer to the four feet of the swastica cross and the fylfot of thor. the four-leaved lotus

onderful feature of the day[[diagram] reindeer engraved on antler by palaeolithic man (after geikie) meanwhile, this is a specimen of an engraving made by a palaeolithic "savage: palaeolithic meaning the "earlier stoneage" man, one supposed to have been as savage and brutal as the brutes he lived with[[vol. 2, page] 721 the palaeolithic landseer. leaving the modern south sea islander, or even any asiatic race, aside, we defy any grown-up schoolboy, or even a european youth, one who has never studied drawing, to execute such an engraving or even a pencil sketch. here we have the true artistic raccourci, and correct lights and shadows without any plane model before the artist, who copied direct from nature, thus exhibiting a knowledge of anatomy and proportion. the artist who engraved this r

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um for conveying the truths which it had become her duty to place before the world. these truths are in no sense put forward as a revelation; nor does the author claim the position of a revealer of mystic lore, now made public for the first time in the world's history. for what is contained in this work is to be found scattered throughout thousands of volumes embodying the scriptures of the great asiatic and early european religions, hidden under glyph and symbol, and hitherto left unnoticed because of this veil. what is now attempted is to gather the oldest tenets together and to make of them one harmonious and unbroken whole. the sole advantage which the writer has over her predecessors, is that she need not resort to personal speculations and theories. for this work is a partial stateme

reached china in the year 61 a.d* when kashyapa, at the invitation of the emperor ming-ti, went there to acquaint the "son of heaven" with the tenets of buddhism, it does seem strange to hear the orientalists speaking of such a loss as though it were really possible. they do not seem to allow for one moment the possibility that the texts may be lost only for west and for themselves; or, that the asiatic people should have the unparalleled boldness to keep their most sacred records out of the reach of foreigners, thus refusing to deliver them to the profanation and misuse of races even so "vastly superior" to themselves. owing to the expressed regrets and numerous confessions of almost every one of the orientalists (see max muller's lectures for example) the public may feel sufficiently su

so to say, of the one infinite spirit. the hindus call it mulaprakriti, and say that it is the primordial substance, which is the basis of the upadhi or vehicle of every phenomenon, whether physical, mental or psychic. it is the source from which akasa radiates (a) by the seven "eternities" aeons or periods are meant. the word "eternity" as understood in christian theology, has no meaning to the asiatic ear, except in its application to the one existence; nor is[[vol. 1, page] 36 the secret doctrine. the term sempiternity, the eternal only in futurity, anything better than a misnomer* such words do not and cannot exist in philosophical metaphysics, and were unknown till the advent of ecclesiastical christianity. the seven eternities meant are the seven periods, or a period answering in it

ne: the garment[[footnote(s* that which was natural in the sight of primitive man has become only now miracle to us; and that which was to him a miracle could never be expressed in our language[[vol. 1, page] 211 the sons of wisdom. only of it is dead; the essence of it lives through all times and all eternity" it lives undeniably, and has settled in all its ineradicable strength and power in the asiatic aryan heart from the third race direct through its first "mind-born" sons- the fruits of kriyasakti. as time rolled on the holy caste of initiates produced but rarely, and from age to age, such perfect creatures: beings apart, inwardly, though the same as those who produced them, outwardly. while in the infancy of the third primitive race "a creature of a more exalted kind was wanting yet

of their "gods" patriarchs, and chronology. it was wilford who had recognized noah in prithee and in satyavrata, enos in dhruva, and even assur in iswara. yet, after being residents for so many years in india, some orientalists, at least, ought to have known that it was not the hindus alone who had these figures, or who had divided their great age into four minor ages. nevertheless writers in the asiatic researches indulged in the most extravagant speculations "christian theologians think it their duty to write against the long periods of hindu chronology" argues very pertinently s. a. mackey, the norwich "philosopher, astronomer, and shoemaker "but when a man of learning crucifies the names and numbers of the ancients, and wrings and twists them into a form which means something quite for

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h dimension and transmitting this vibration to the vast crowds. this affected the vibrational state of the people attracted by it and turned them into equally crazed agents of hatred. it is the pied piper principle, using a vibration instead of a pipe. as the writer alan bullock said of hitler "his power to bewitch an audience has been likened to the occult arts of the african medicine-man or the asiatic shaman; others have compared it to the sensitivity of a medium, and the magnetism of a hypnotist."7 and herman rauschning, an aide to hitler, said in his book, hitler speaks "one cannot help thinking of him as a medium. for most of the time, mediums are ordinary, insignificant people. suddenly they are endowed with what seem to be 210 .and the truth shall set you free supernatural powers w

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the "reptilian" demonic consciousness and transmitting this vibration to the vast crowds. this affected the vibrational state of the people and turned them into equally crazed agents of hatred. it is the pied piper principle, using vibrational frequencies. as writer alan bullock said of hitler "his power to bewitch an audience has been likened to the occult art of the african medicine man or the asiatic shaman; others have compared it to the sensitivity of a medium, and the magnetism of a hypnotist."19 and hermann rauschning, an aide to hitler, said in his book hitler speaks "one cannot help thinking of him as a medium. for most of the time, mediums are ordinary, insignificant people. suddenly they are endowed with what seems to be supernatural powers, which set them apart from the rest o

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very, he was channelling thereptilian consciousness and transmitting this vibration to the vast crowds. this affectedthe vibrational state of the people and turned them into equally crazed agents of hatred.it is the pied piper principle, using vibrational frequencies. as one writer said of hitler:his power to bewitch an audience has been likened to the occult art of the africanmedicine man or the asiatic shaman; others have compared it to the sensitivity of amedium, and the magnetism of a hypnotist. 5and hermann rauschning, an aide to hitler, said in his book, hitler speaks:one cannot help thinking of him as a medium. for most of the time, mediums areordinary, insignificant people. suddenly they are endowed with what seem to besupernatural powers which set them apart from the rest of human

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other of the ancient arts, and is only being laboriously recovered piecemeal in the more advanced circles of scientific thought. 11. the method used by the modern initiate for interpreting the language spoken by the ancient myths is a very simple and effectual one. he finds in the qabalistic tree of life a link between the highly stylistic pagan systems and his own more rational methods; the jew, asiatic by blood and monotheistic by religion, has a foot in both worlds. upon the tree of life with its ten holy sephiroth the modern occultist bases both a metaphysic and a magic. he uses a philosophical conception of the tree to interpret what it represents to his conscious mind, and he uses a magical and ceremonial application of its symbolism to link it up with his subconscious mind. the init

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be comparatively rare in modern times, but in eastern europe and in primitive countries it appears to be by no means uncommon, and innumerable well-authenticated cases occur in books of travel. commander gould, in his exceedingly interesting book, oddities, gives an account of vampirism among the berberlangs of the philippine islands. his account is based on a paper printed in the journal of the asiatic society, vol. lxv, 1896. these unpleasant people, according to mr. skertchley, the author of the article which commander gould quotes "are ghouls, and must eat human flesh occasionally or they would die. when they feel a craving for a meal of human flesh they go away into the grass, and having carefully hidden their bodies, hold their breaths and fall into a trance. their astral bodies are

EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD PAPYRUS OF ANI MALESTROM

s theories only, so long as a single ancient necropolis in egypt remains unexplored and its inscriptions are untranslated. whether they were composed by the inhabitants of egypt, who recorded them in hieroglyphic characters, and who have left the monuments which are the only trustworthy sources of information on the subject, or whether they were brought into egypt by the early immigrants from the asiatic continent whence they came, or whether they represent the religious books of the egyptians incorporated with the funeral texts of some prehistoric dwellers on the banks of the nile, are all questions which the possible discovery of inscriptions belonging to the first dynasties of the early empire can alone decide. the evidence derived from the p. xii its antiquity. enormous mass of new mat

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ibility may have arisen. perhaps they drew them from greece, modifying and adapting them to their own specific forms of matter, mercury, sulphur, and arsenic. arabian astrology astrology was also employed by the oracles of spain. al- battani was celebrated for his astronomical science, as were many others; and in geometry, arithmetic, algebraical calculations, and the theory of music, the list of asiatic and spanish practitioners is long, but only known by their lives and principal writings. the works of ptolemy also exercised the ingenuity of the arabians. but judicial astrology, or the art of foretelling future events from the position and influences of the stars, was a favorite pursuit; and many of their philosophers dedicated all their labors to this futile but lucrative inquiry. they

his character and person. illustrating their astrological discipline, they also published some writings ascribed to the persian zoroaster. sources: hutin, serge. a history of alchemy. new york: walker, 1963. reprint, new york: tower books, n.d. jabir ibn hayyan. the works of geber. london: printed for william cooper, 1686. muhammad ibn umail al-tamini. three arabic treatises on alchemy. calcutta: asiatic society of bengal, 1933. aradia the book aradia: gospel of the witches by charles g. leland (1899 and often reprinted) presented traditional witchcraft teachings from italy, which leland claimed he obtained from a florentine fortune-teller and hereditary witch in the late nineteenth century. this book is clearly one of the inspirations of the modern witchcraft revival launched by gerald b

francisco zen center. he was succeeded by rev. chimyo horioka of the shingon sect of buddhism, who graduated from koyasan university, japan, then studied philosophy at the university of berlin, and science and the history of religion at hamburg university, becoming instructor of oriental studies. he immigrated to the united states in 1953 and in 1956 was appointed assistant to the curator of the asiatic department at the museum of fine arts, boston. horioka was succeeded by maurine stuart, a student of the late soen naakgawa. stuart, also a musician, teaches buddhism at the philips exeter academy in new hampshire as well. the association provides facilities for zen meditation but is also open to a variety of buddhist perspectives, and members are active in area interfaith activities. the

nd babylon, figures like apepi and tiawath, although clearly in the line of evolution toward a satanic personality, were by no means rulers of the infernal regions. again, the hades of the greeks is merely a ruler of the ghosts of the dead, not an enemy of olympus or of mankind. it is strange that in mexico, mictlantecutli, lord of hell, is a much more directly satanic figure than any european or asiatic ruler of the realms of the dead. but in some mythologies, there are frequent allusions to monsters that may quite easily have colored the modern concept of satan. such is the hindu serpent ahi, the hebrew leviathan, and the principle of chaos. teutonic mythology has the menacing loki, originally a god of fire, but afterward the personification of evil. the concept of satan, too, appears to

with disease and cause death. although long obsolete in lapland, these rites survived for a long time among the samoyeds and other races of arctic asia and america. it is interesting to note how exactly the procedure described among the vaigatz samoyeds in 1556 (pinkerton s voyages, london, 1808, i, 63) tallied with the account of the sakhalin ainos in 1883 (j. m. dixon in the transactions of the asiatic society of japan, yokohama, 1883, 47. the same practices can be traced eastward through arctic america, and the drum was used in the same fashion by the eskimo shaman priests in greenland (hinrich johannes rink s tales and traditions of the eskimos, 1875, pp. 60.61. the shape of the drum varied a little according to locality. the form of the eskimo drum was that of a tambourine. according

ng house) of bietigheim, germany, whose owner, christoph friedrich landbeck, was a student of the materials. in 1924 lorber s students founded the new jerusalem society. after the rise of adolph hitler and the annexation of austria, the society was suppressed, but after the war it resurfaced as the lorber gesellschaft (or lorber society. in 1921, hans nordewin von koerber (1896.1979, professor of asiatic studies at the university of southern california, discovered the lorber material and began to translate it into english. in 1962 he founded the divine word society to publish and disseminate english editions of lorber s writings. this society was very active through the 1970s but seems to have disbanded in more recent years. lorber s revelations amount to a revised gnostic interpretation o

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he giant yeti that carried away human children or even adults. in 1951, such stories suddenly attracted scientific interest when a photograph of a large yeti footprint taken by mountaineer eric shipton on an everest reconnaissance expedition appeared. the abominable snowman had been reported by westerners as early as 1832 in an article by b. h. hodgson for the initial volume of the journal of the asiatic society of bengal. the first european to see yeti footprints was major l. a. waddell, who found them in the snows of northeastern sikkim at 17,000 feet in 1889, but believed them to be tracks of the great yellow snow bear (ursus isabellinus. additional reports filtered back to the west through the twentieth century. in 1925, n. a. tombazi, a fellow of the royal geographical society, saw a

rial: early records and modern evidence. vancouver, bc: university of british columbia press, 1980. heuvlmans, bernard. in the wake of the sea-serpents. new york: hill and wang, 1868. reprint, london: rupert hart- davis, 1968. on the track of unknown animals. new york: hill and wang, 1958. rev. ed. 1965. reprint, london: paladin books, 1970. hodgson, b. h. on the mammalia of nepal. journal of the asiatic society of bengal 1 (1832. mackal, roy paul. the monster of loch ness. chicago: swallow press, 1976. mcnally, raymont t, and radu florescu. in search of dracula: a true history of dracula and vampire legends. new york: new york graphic society, 1972. rev. ed. boston: houghton mifflin, 1994. meredith, dennis l. search at loch ness: the expedition of the new york times and the academy of app

rrounding the creed of the sun-god; the art of greece influenced the representation of mithra tauroctonous that graced the temples of the cult; and the romans gave it a wide geographical area and immense influence. according to plutarch, the rites originally reached rome through the agency of cilician privates conquered and taken there by pompey. another source, doubtless, was the large number of asiatic slaves employed in roman households. again the roman soldiery must have carried the mithraic cult as far north as the mountains of scotland, and south to the borders of the sahara desert. mithraism may be said to have been the only living religion christianity found a need to combat. it was strong enough to exert a formative influence on certain christian doctrines, such as those relative

es overcame and slew the monster. hence, in this constellation the serpent is depicted rearing its head aloft, while hercules, placed above it with one knee bent, tramples with his foot upon its head, and brandishes a club in his right hand. the greeks placed the garden of the hesperides close to mount atlas, and then claimed it was far into the regions of western africa, yet all knowledge of its asiatic site was not erased from the classical mythologists. apollodorus states that certain writers situated it not in the libyan atlas, but in the atlas of the hyperboreans. others believed the world was originally a paradise, and its first inhabitants were human, whose dwelling was a magnificent hall glittering with fine gold and where love, joy, and friendship presided. but this happiness was

ew york: helix press, 1964. rofe (fevzi) husein (1922) author, teacher, orientalist, and advocate of subud, an indonesian mystical movement closely associated with the work of george i. gurdjieff. he was born may 3, 1922, in manchester, england and studied at the university of london. he traveled widely as a lecturer and teacher, particularly in eastern countries, and became a fellow of the royal asiatic society, london. during world war ii rofe served in the royal air force (1940.45) and afterward became a teacher at the london school of languages (1945.46. he moved to morrocco in 1947 as an interpreter for the british consulate (1947.49) and was successively a teacher in government secondary schools, djokjakarta, indonesia (1950.54; a turkish lycee, nicosia, cyprus (1955.56; a language t

the journal by working at a pharmacy in madras. in 1913 kuppuswami decided to take up medical work in malaya, where he eventually earned a reputation for combining medical work, spiritual observance, and selfless service to the poor. by 1920 he was working with three european doctors and managing a hospital. he became a member of the royal institute of public health, london, a member of the royal asiatic society, london, and an associate of the royal sanitary institute, london. in addition he published several books, including household remedies, fruits and health, diseases and their tamil terms, obstetric ready reckoner, and fourteen lectures on public health. during his spare time, he studied traditional yoga and vedanta, spending much time in meditation. in 1923 he became increasingly p

e was, in the centre of the hut, a small raised place about eighteen inches high, on which the fire had been made for burning tobacco. the sorcerer being asked to give up the gourd, peremptorily refused, saying that if he did so his two children would die the same night. franz keller, in amazon and madeira rivers (1874, observes of the brazilian tribes as follows: as with the shamans of the north asiatic nations, the influence a paje may secure over his tribe depends entirely on the success of his cures and his more or less imposing personal qualities. woe to him if by some unlucky ministration or fatal advice he forfeits his prestige. the hate of the whole tribe turns against him, as if to indemnify them for the fear and awe felt by them until then; and often he pays for his envied positi

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zulaikha: an allegorical romance (abridged, translated by david pendlebury, octagon press, london, 1990. sa adi. gulistan or rose garden, translated by edward rehatsek, capricorn books, new york, 1966. 29 per indries shah, the arabic word for rose (ward) and the word for concentration practices (wird) rhyme. 30 al ghazzali. mishkat al anwar translated by w.h.t. gairdner as niche for lamps, royal asiatic society, london. 1924. the mishkat al anwar is primarily a commentary on the light surah. al ghazzali. the alchemy of happiness, translated by claud field, ashraf, lahore, 1966. ibn arabi. what the seeker needs, translated by bankey behari, sufi publishing co, surrey, england, 1992. al jilani, abdul qadir. the secret of secrets, interpreted by shaykh tosun bayrak, islamic text society, cam

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t "most frequently symbolized on early christian sepulchral tablets and monuments"[13] christ's body was the "bread of life" and his blood was the "wine from the tree of life" of which to partake was life eternal. the cross, as in earlier religions, represented completeness of life. the jambu tree, the buddhist god-tree, is in the shape of a cross.[14 [13] essays on symbolism, p. 74 [14] wilford, asiatic researches. among the kelti a tall oak was not only a symbol of the deity, but it was jupiter himself, while the earth from which it sprang was the great mother. throughout europe, in all ages, the oak has received divine honors. the fact that under its branches jew, pagan, and christian alike swore their most solemn oaths, shows that its veneration was not confined to any particular natio

india, and that when the ionians emigrated they adopted the name to distinguish themselves as adorers of the female, in opposition to a strong sect of male worshippers which had been driven from the mother country. we are taught by the puranas that they settled partly on the borders of varaha-dwip, or europe, where they became the progenitors of the greeks; and partly in the two dwipas of cusha, asiatic and african. in the asiatic cusha-dwip they supported themselves by violence and rapine. parvati, however, or their tutelary goddess, yoni, always protected them; and at length, in the fine country which they occupied, they became a flourishing nation.[50] wilford relates that there is a sect of hindoos who, attempting to reconcile the two systems, declare in their allegorical style that "

ey became a flourishing nation.[50] wilford relates that there is a sect of hindoos who, attempting to reconcile the two systems, declare in their allegorical style that "parvati and mahadeva found their concurrence essential to the perfection of their offspring, and that vishnu, at the request of the goddess, effected a reconciliation between them"[51 [49] see the evolution of women, p. 303 [50] asiatic researches, vol. iii, pp. 125-132 [51] asiatic researches "egypt and the nile" vol. iii, pp. 361-363. the people who were dominant in asia long before the rise of the late assyrian monarchy, are said to be those whom scriptural writers represent as cushim, and the hindoos as cushas. they were the descendants of cush, or cuth, and were believed to have been the architects of the tower of ba

potter's wheel, an invention which, so far as its utility is concerned, is declared to be absolutely perfect--the most complete of all the instruments of the world "it never has been improved and admits of no improvement" in fact all that may be gathered concerning the ancient etrurians, a people who by the most able writers upon this subject is believed to have been one of the first to leave the asiatic hive, is in perfect accord with the facts already set forth regarding that mighty nation, perhaps of upper asia, who carried the study of astronomy to a degree of perfection never again reached until after the discovery of the copernican system, who invented the neros and the metonic cycle, who colonized egypt and chaldea, and who carried civilization to the remotest ends of the earth. the

ve paid attention to the true history of this movement, there can be no doubt about the matter. notwithstanding the early tendencies of the "new religion" toward the recognition of women, and toward the restoration of the female principle in the deity, the policy to be pursued by the church was soon apparent, for paul, the real founder of the system calling itself christian, and a man imbued with asiatic prejudices concerning women, arrogantly declared that "man is the head of woman as christ is the head of the church" women were commanded to be under obedience. neither was the man created for the woman, but the woman for the man; thus was re-established and emphasized the absurd doctrine of the lingaites, that the male is an independent entity, that he is spirit and superior to the female

officiated as educators and priestesses. in fact wherever the druidical order prevailed women exerted a powerful influence in all departments of human activity. among the germans, valleda, a druidess, was for ages worshipped as a deity. it is recorded that st. bridget planted a monastery for women at kildare and entrusted to its inmates the keeping of the sacred fire, and that in later times the asiatic missionaries founded there a female monkish order. after the establishment of western christianity, however, no woman was permitted to enter into the monasteries, and we are assured that this ridiculous affectation of purity was extended even to the grave. during the earlier ages of christianity, in many portions of ireland there were cemeteries for men and women distinct from each other "

s crucifix cannot be hindoo "because there are duplicates of it from the same model" as the mould is made of clay, he contends that only one cast may be made from it. this argument falls to the ground, however, so soon as it is found that duplicates, or copies of these brass idols which may not be distinguished from the originals, are seen in the museum at the india house, and also in that of the asiatic society. the admission of moore that "great influence was brought to bear upon him to induce him not to publish the prints of ballaji for fear of giving offense" serves as a hint in determining the cause for the lack of information respecting this god. it is believed that, were the development of truth upon this subject rather than its concealment the object of christian missionaries, the

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ntal impressions and confused memories, mayitnot be that, however rarely, there are yet some dreams of a finer sort? throughout the ages there are traces of a belief that dreams may be of divine origin, or be prompted by angelic messengers or the spirits of dead relatives, or may be prophetic or divinatory by means unknown and inexplainable. greek, latin, hebrew, and medieval european, as well as asiatic literatures abound with alleged instances of dreams which had a serious meaning or a valuable purpose. are there such dreams today? or not? are such dreams, like angels visits, a thing of the past?thepoet hassung-why come not angels from the realms of glory, to visit earth as in the days of old? is heaven more distant, or has earth grown cold?even so may we ask regarding dreams. there must

r a livelihood.thebelief in a concealed meaning which lies hid in our dreams has also been mentioned, and the art of cheiromancy is still popular.divination and its history211reference may now be made to the old system of geomancy and to the revival of fortune telling by cards, generally associated with the gypsies, and especially to the tarot cards. geomancy this is one of the few old methods of asiatic divination which is still recognised as an art; in a treatise on its practice published in england so late as 1889 a full description is given of the process. its use is said to strengthen as well as guide the intuition, and thus to prompt the intellect to perceive the events of the future, and also those occurring at a distance. its processes are intimately relatedtoastrological conceptio

f enlightenment by the life and doctrines of gautama the buddha. from the pundits of india our nineteenth century in europe received important teach255 ings which have come down from primeval times. brahmins came over to england in the last century, and called the attention of literati to the vendanta and indian philosophic systems, then recently produced in english translations by members of the asiatic society and by professors wilson,290themagical masonmoor, wheeler, colebrook, monier williams and max miiller. we became acquainted with the outlines of the great conception of karma, which insists that the 'law of cause and effect' acts in the spiritual as well as in the physical world, and of the reincarnation of the human ego in a series of personalities with a view to experiencing all

GRAHAM HANCOCK FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

t that one family was saved and two animals of every kind. the sioux also spoke of a time when there was no dry land and when all men disappeared from existence.24 water water everywhere how far and how widely across the myth memories of mankind do the ripples of the great flood spread? very widely indeed. more than 500 deluge legends are known around the world and, in a survey of 86 of these (20 asiatic, 3 european, 7 african, 46 american and 10 from australia and the pacific, the specialist researcher dr richard andree concluded that 62 were entirely independent of the mesopotamian and hebrew accounts.25 20 new larousse encyclopaedia of mythology, p. 426. 21 folklore in the old testament, pp. 111-12. 22 new larousse encyclopaedia of mythology, p. 431. 23 ibid, pp. 428-9; folklore in the

o its topmost branches. mountains crumbled or split from top to bottom. the earth began to lose its shape. already the stars were coming adrift in the sky. in the opinion of de santillana and von dechend, this myth mixes the 1 livio catullo stecchini, notes on the relation of ancient measures to the great pyramid, in secrets of the great pyramid, pp. 381-2. 2 martin bernal, black athena: the afro-asiatic roots of classical civilization, vintage books, london, 1991, p. 276. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 241 familiar theme of catastrophe with the quite separate theme of precession. on the one hand we have an earthly disaster on a scale that seems to dwarf even the flood of noah. on the other we hear that ominous changes are taking place in the heavens and that the stars, which have

GREENFIELD ALLEN SECRET CIPHER OF THE UFONAUTS

the general descriptions of the vampires themselves are identical to the men in black. the dark skin and angular, oriental-like faces were commonly reported. the autobiography of malcolm x described malcolm s encounter with an mib in prison: he had on a dark suit i remember. i could see him as plainly as i see anyone i look at. he wasn t black, and he wasn t white. he was light-brown skinned, an asiatic cast of countenance, and he had oily black hair. it is interesting that the celebrated film malcolm x chooses to imply that this figure was nation of islam leader elijah mohammed. while elijah mohammed and his mysterious teacher wallace fard (who vanished without a trace) had come out of high degree prince hall freemasonry, and certainly knew some of the esoteric secrets, the being malcolm

o historical understandings of the magical revival of the late 19th century. for westerners, especially in america, the separation of church and state has been sufficient to make it difficult even to think in terms of spirituality and political philosophy as a continuous sphere. even hardcore bible-belters are unable to truly imagine an established religion in the european sense, let alone in the asiatic. i believe most of us have virtually no idea of what makes islamic republicanism tick, and we stand appalled not only at the atrocities of islamic government, but at its sheer zeal. the idea of pat robertson driving a truck filled with explosives into an enemy military compound shouting jesus is lord! is ludicrous in our imaginations. put billy graham behind the wheel. but you get the poin

GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 3

results have already been attained in finland, whose people, comparable in this to the servians alone, have in their mouths to this day a most wonderful store of songs and tales, though in servian poetry the heroic legend predominates, and in finnic the myth. merely by what ganander, porthan and now lonnrot have published, an immense deal is bridged over between the german, norse, slav, greek and asiatic mythologies. rask (in afhand. 1, 96) had already derived some norse names of giants from finnic. and further, the distinction we made between legend and fairy-tale does not at all apply as yet to this finnic poetry: it stands at an older stage, where the marvels of the fairy-tale without any sense of incongruity mingle with the firmer basis of the folk-tale, and even the animal fable can b

GRIMM TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 2 1883 COMPLETE

od, the earth became flesh, the hard lime bone, etc/ these distinctions between lime, clay, earth and slime have a tang of heathenism; the poet durst not entirely depart from, the creation as set forth by the church, but that compounding of man out of several materials appears to be still known to him. and traces of it are met with in the folk-poetry. 1 it is significant how greek and, above all, asiatic myths of the creation coincide with the norse (and what i believe to have been once the universal teutonic) view of the world s origin out of component parts of the human body: it must therefore be of remote antiquity. the story lasts in india to this day, that brahma was slain by the other gods, and the sky made out of his skull: there is some analogy to this in the greek notion of atlas

the 1st of may, yet sometimes on the 2nd or 3rd. this day is called in irish and gaelic la bealtine or beiltine, otherwise spelt beltein, and corrupted into belton, beltim, beltam. la means day, 1 hyde remarks of the guebers also, that they lighted a fire every year. need-fiee. bealtine. 613 teine or tine fire, and beal, beil, is understood to be the name of a god, not directly connected with the asiatic belus, 1 but a deity of light peculiar to the celts. this irish beal, beil, gaelic beal, appears in the welsh dialect as beli, and his 0. celtic name of belenus, belinus is preserved in ausonius, tertullian and numerous inscriptions (forcellini sub v. the present custom is thus described by armstrong sub v. bealtainn: t in some parts of the highlands the young folks of a hamlet meet in the

HAMIL THE ROSICRUCIAN SEER

in correspondence[kennethroberthendersonmackenzie(1833-86) was the son of a physician. spending his early years in vienna he showed promise as a linguist and writer, but one that was never realized. at seventeen his translations from the german were praised and he was contributing regularly tonotesandq!leries.byhis early twenties he had achieved membership of the ethnographical society, the royal asiatic society, and the royal society of antiquaries. a love of the bottle, bogus claims to academic titles, an irascible nature and a veritable passion for mystery lost him many good friends. hockley possibly came into contact with mackenzie when the latter was publishing, at his own expense,thebiologicalreview(1858-59, a journal devoted to mesmerism and fringe medicine. hockley appears to have

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

em of the t.s *1) the objects of the society q. what are the objects of the "theosophical society? a. they are three, and have been so from the beginning. 1. to form the nucleus of a universal brotherhood of humanity without distinction of race, color, or creed. 2. to promote the study of aryan *2) and other scriptures, of the world's religions and sciences, and to vindicate the importance of old asiatic literature, namely, of the brahmanical, buddhist, and zoroastrian philosophies. 3. to investigate the hidden mysteries of nature under every aspect possible, and the psychic and spiritual powers latent in man especially. these are, broadly stated, the three chief objects of the theosophical society *1) see also appendix at the end of this file *2) h.p.b. means the original indo-germanic ra

HP LOVECRAFT A DARK LORE

is feet were inordinately immense. the more i studied them the more i wondered how he could buy any shoes to fit them. a certain greasiness about the fellow increased my dislike. he was evidently given to working or lounging around the fish docks, and carried with him much of their characteristic smell. just what foreign blood was in him i could not even guess. his oddities certainly did not look asiatic, polynesian, levantine or negroid, yet i could see why the people found him alien. i myself would have thought of biological degeneration rather than alienage. i was sorry when i saw there would be no other passengers on the bus. somehow i did not like the idea of riding alone with this driver. but as leaving time obviously approached i conquered my qualms and followed the man aboard, exte

HP LOVECRAFT THE SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH

is feet were inordinately immense. the more i studied them the more i wondered how he could buy any shoes to fit them. a certain greasiness about the fellow increased my dislike. he was evidently given to working or lounging around the fish docks, and carried with him much of their characteristic smell. just what foreign blood was in him i could not even guess. his oddities certainly did not look asiatic, polynesian, levantine or negroid, yet i could see why the people found him alien. i myself would have thought of biological degeneration rather than alienage. i was sorry when i saw there would be no other passen-gers on the bus. somehow i did not like the idea of riding alone with this driver. but as leaving time obviously approached i conquered my qualms and followed the man aboard, ext

ISIS UNVEILED

s; and still it was ephesus, with her numerous collateral branches of the great college of the essenes, which proved to be the hot- bed of all the kabalistic speculations brought by the tanaim from the captivity "in ephesus" says j. matter "the notions of the jewish- egyptian school, and the semi-persian speculations of the kabaliats bad then recently come to swell the vast conflux of grecian and asiatic doctrines; so there is no wonder that teaches should have sprung up there who strove to combine the religion newly preadied by the apostle with the ideas there so long established* had not the christians burdened themselves with the ravdalunu at a little nation, and accepted the jehovah of moses, the gnostic ideas would never have been termed hereaiea; once relieved of their dogmatic exagg

tructor, and this is whywe find him confessing in all 466" ye bkrecoodeiuiied and killed the jiut" uti jamea in his eputleto the twelve tribea (v, 6. 467. por^yry nukea s diitincuoii between what he calls "the antique or orutdal phuotophu, and the properly gredan syitetn, that of the neo-platonista. kiiu> wmyt that j1 ttiem leligkuu and irstemb are branche* of one antique and common idigioii, the asiatic or buddhistic (ta* qnottici and uuir bemaau, pp. 1. 13, etc; 2iid ed. 468. s6d, at son cf tme mao, p. 23. j^ b. hymn ui: cf. h. druoa (sutm tu 5vnma> paris, 1878. digitizecoy google heal source of herod's 'infant-massacre' 199 sincerity his opinions and professicm of faith "tlie rabble deaires nothing better than to be deceived. as regards myself, therefore/ vrill alwayg be a philowpber vr

ccording to john "that waa'tjie true light" and "the light shineth in darkness "and the wobd was made flesh "and of his fuuneaa [pleroma] have all we revived" etc (john, i, 5, aq. the 'christ' then, and the 'logos' existed ages before christianity; the oriental gnosis was studied long before the days of moses, and ire have to seek for the origin of all these in the archaic periods of the primeval asiatic philosophy. peter's second epietle and jude's frag- ment, preserved in the new testament, show by their phraseology that such terms belong to the kabalistic oriental gnosis, for tbey use tjie same expressions as did the christian gnostics who built up a part of their sys- tem from the oriental kabala "presumptuous are they [the ophites, jklf-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dio

to teach anything impottant, for they are based upon the calculations of bishop newton* as to this mode of finding out mysteries in the value of let- ters. however we find this great archaeologist, who has devoted so much time and labor to the study of gnostic gems, corroborating our assertion. he shows that the entire theory is hindq, and points out that the durgd, or female counterpart of each asiatic god, is what the kabalists term ac- tive virtue* in the celestial hierarchy, a term which the christian fathers adopted and repeated without fully appreciating, and the meaning. of ^bich the later theology has utterly disfigured. but to return to meru. muduti, tbot u no doubt thmt they borrowed me idea from a foreign source, and that from the cbkldmaiu, the founjeri of magic art" uya king

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

stars of castor and pollux, nay, generally, the employment of the double emblem all the world over, in ancient or in modern times, whether displayed as points, or radii) or wings on the helmets of those barbarian chiefs who made war upon rome, attila or genseric, or broadly shown upon the head-piece of the frankish clovis; whether emblemed in the rude and, as it were, savagely mystic horns of the asiatic idols, or reproduced in the horns of the runic hammerer (or destroyer, or those of the gothic mars, or of the modern devil; all this double-spreading from a common point (or this figure of horns) speaks the same story. the colossus of rhodes was a monolith, in the human form, dedicated to the sun, or to fire. the pharos of alexandria was a fire-monument heliopolis, or the city of the sun

JESSUP MK THE CASE FOR THE UFO

in them? the bulletin also said that about two months before flesh and blood had fallen from the sky in santa clara county, california. these falls of flesh and blood coincide, temporally, with a vast fall of dead birds in baton rouge, louisiana. 62 again we have a familiar pattern: segregation, isolation, clear sky "about two acres of ground" there is an interesting item from the journal of the asiatic society of bengal, 1847. on march 16, 1846, at about the time of the fall of edible substance in asia minor, an olive-gray powder fell at shanghai. under the microscope it was seen to be an aggregation of hairs of two kinds: black ones, and rather thick white ones. they were supposed to be animal fibers, but, when burned, they gave out "the common ammoniacal smell and smoke of burnt hair o

ans and orientals: four to seven thousand years at most; and heaven forbid if one suggests advanced races in eras of ten, twenty, forty, or one hundred thousand years ago. yet no scientist has found a logical common denominator for the various races, cultures, and civilizations of which we have unmistakable records, except that of a common source predating the egyptians, the chinese, the indians (asiatic, the incas, and the mayas, and in fact all branches covered by the study of anthropology and ethnology. much as we may deride writers such as churchward (as per de camp; lost continents) in his rather crude presentation of his hypothesis of the lost continent of mu, his is the only general explanation of terrestrial intellectual development and distribution to be advanced which in a broad

towed into colombo today, still carrying plenty of food, water and fuel. something else must have been missing. a meal had been prepared in the galley, ready for serving. despite a broken mast, the holchu rode well in the waters with a cargo of rice. the ship normally plies between andaman and nicobar islands, near the route from colombo to singapore. there was no clue as to the fate of the five asiatic crew men known to have been aboard. sighted three days ago, two hundred miles south of nicobar islands, the derelict was boarded by crew members of the british freighter, ranee. the british vessel was carrying 7,450 tons of rice from communist china to ceylon the first consignment under a new trade agreement note the pattern again in this modern case. the broken mast is the key. this was a

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

in the v.s.l) cryphius, the occult, a degree in the taking of which the mystic was perhaps hidden from others in the sanctuary by a veil, the removal of which was a solemn ceremonial; miles, the soldier, signifying the holy warfare against evil in the service of the god; leo, the lion, symbolic of the element of fire, which played so great a part in the persian faith; perses, the persian, clad in asiatic costume, a reminiscence of the ancient origin of the religion; heliodromus, the courier of the sun, with whom mithra was identified; and pater, the father, a degree bringing the mystic among those who had the general direction of the cult for the rest of their lives. 420. it is not easy to trace exact correspondences between these seven stages and our own degrees, because of the difference

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

" the odinic mysteries the date of the founding of the odinic mysteries is uncertain, some writers declaring that they were established in the first century before christ; others, the first century after christ. robert macoy, 33, gives the following description of their origin "it appears from the northern chronicles that in the first century of the christian era, sigge, the chief of the aser, an asiatic tribe, emigrated from the caspian sea and the caucasus into northern europe. he directed his course northwesterly from the black sea to russia, over which, according to tradition, he placed one of his sons as a ruler, as he is said to have done over the saxons and the franks. he then advanced through cimbria to denmark, which acknowledged his fifth son skiold as its sovereign, and passed o

exist in tibet, and the monks of a buddhist monastery in ceylon still preserve a record which indicates that jesus sojourned with them and became conversant with their philosophy. although early christianity shows every evidence of oriental influence, this is a subject the modern church declines to discuss. if it is ever established beyond question that jesus was an initiate of the pagan greek or asiatic mysteries, the effect upon the more conservative members of the christian faith is likely to be cataclysmic. if jesus was god incarnate, as the solemn councils of the church discovered, why is he referred to in the new testament as "called of god an high prim after the order of melchizedek? the words "after the order" make jesus one of a line or order of which there must have been others o

and presented the finished volume to alexander. this book the young conqueror so highly prized that he carried it with him on all his campaigns. at the time of his triumph over darius, discovering among the spoils a magnificent, gemstudded casket of unguents, he dumped its contents upon the ground, declaring that at last he had found a case worthy of aristotle's edition of the iliad! while on his asiatic campaign, alexander learned that aristotle had published one of his most prized discourses, an occurrence which deeply grieved the young king. so to aristotle, conqueror of the unknown, alexander, conqueror of the known, sent this reproachful and pathetic and admission of the insufficiency of worldly pomp and power "alexander to aristotle, health: you were wrong in publishing those branche

MEANING OF MASONRY

second, and the discovery then made. this third myth has already been expounded in our paper on the royal arch degree, so that we need now speak only of the craft myths. to the literal-minded the building of solomon's temple at jerusalem (which is of course largely but not entirely based upon the hebrew scriptures) appears to be the history of an actual stone and mortar structure erected by three asiatic notables, one of whom conceived the idea, another supplying the building material, whilst the third was the practical architect and chief of works. the two former are said to have been kings of adjacent small nations; the third was not a royalty, but apparently a person of no social dignity and a" widow's son" as has previously been said in these papers, these details of an enterprise unde

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

one (o group. there is alsoanother protein called the rhesus factor that some people have and others do not. if man is evolvedfrom apes then there is something very strange since the ab group is almost non-existent in apes, and ois minimal! chimpanzees are mainly group a (never b, and gorillas are mainly group b (never a).similarly, the early europeans had a high percentage of group a, whilst the asiatic races had a high per-centage of b. so the idea has been proposed that chimpanzees developed into cro-magnon man, theneuropeans, whilst gorillas developed into the larger brained neanderthals then into the asians. toaccount for group o, there must have been a third group of proto-humans who were o. for group o thebororo, mayans, and incas are all virtually 100% group o. and the navajos are

MORALS AND DOGMA

e days of peril and disaster, among the children of ease, indulgence, and luxury. in the great march of the races of men over the earth, we have always seen opulence and luxury sinking before poverty and toil and hardy nurture. that is the law which has presided over the great processions of empire. sidon and tyre, whose merchants possessed the wealth of princes; babylon and palmyra, the seats of asiatic luxury; rome, laden with the spoils of a world, overwhelmed by her own vices more than by the hosts of her enemies; all these, and many more, are examples of the destructive tendencies of immense and unnatural accumulation: and men must become more generous and benevolent, not more selfish and effeminate, as they become more rich, or the history of modern wealth will follow in the sad trai

as obtained, during the ceremonies, by striking a rock with it. the bakch crowned their heads with serpents, carried them in vases and baskets, and at the [greek??s, or finding, of the body of osiris, cast one, alive, into the aspirant's bosom. the mysteries of atys in phrygia, and those of cybele his mistress, like their worship, much resembled those of adonis and bakchos, osiris and isis. their asiatic origin is universally admitted, and was with great plausibility claimed by phrygia, which contested the palm of antiquity with egypt. they, more than any other people, mingled allegory with their religious worship, and were great inventors of fables; and their sacred traditions as to cybele and atys, whom all admit to be phrygian gods, were very various. in all, as we learn from julius fir

us. the initiates also bore the title of _eagles_ and _hawks, birds consecrated to the sun in egypt, the former sacred to the god mendes, and the latter the emblem of the sun and royalty. the little island of samothrace was long the depositary of certain august mysteries, and many went thither from all parts of greece to be initiated. it was said to have been settled by the ancient pelasgi, early asiatic colonists in greece. the gods adored in the mysteries of this island were termed cabiri, an oriental word, from _cabar, great. varro calls the gods of samothrace _potent gods. in arabic, venus is called _cabar. varro says that the great deities whose mysteries were practised there, were heaven and earth. these were but symbols of the active and passive powers or principles of universal gen

nd like a river through the wintry bear, was made the astronomical cincture of the universe, as the serpent encircles the mundane egg in egyptian hieroglyphics. the persian ahriman was called "the old serpent, the liar from the beginning, the prince of darkness, and the rover up and down" the dragon was a well-known symbol of the waters and of great rivers; and it was natural that by the pastoral asiatic tribes, the powerful nations of the alluvial plains in their neighborhood who adored the dragon or fish, should themselves be symbolized under the form of dragons; and overcome by the superior might of the hebrew god, as monstrous leviathans maimed and destroyed by him. ophioneus, in the old greek theology, warred against kronos, and was overcome and cast into his proper element, the sea

iacally at the autumnal equinox, besetting with poisonous influence the cold constellation sagittarius, is explained as the reptile in the path who "bites the horse's heels, so that his rider falls backward" the same serpent, the oannes aphrenos or musaros of syncellus, was the midgard serpent which odin sunk beneath the sea, but which grew to such a size as to encircle the whole earth. for these asiatic symbols of the contest of the sun-god with the dragon of darkness and winter were imported not only into the zodiac, but into the more homely circle of european legend; and both thor and odin fight with dragons, as apollo did with python, the great scaly snake, achilles with the scamander, and bellerophon with the chim ra. in the apocryphal book of esther, dragons herald "a day of darkness

dy of kingdoms, been fulfilled "thy wisdom and thy knowledge have perverted thee, and thou hast said in thy heart i am and none else beside me. therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know whence it riseth; and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off; desolation shall come upon thee suddenly" and as to london--it looked like judgment, if it be true that the asiatic cholera had its origin in english avarice and cruelty, as they suppose who trace it to the tax which warren hastings, when governor-general of india, imposed on salt, thus cutting off its use from millions of the vegetable-eating races of the east: just as that disease whose spectral shadow lies always upon america's threshold, originated in the avarice and cruelty of the slave-trade, tran

MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS E

l the famous hunter actaeon, who happening one day to see artemis and her attendants bathing, imprudently ventured to approach the spot. the goddess, incensed at his audacity, sprinkled him with water, and transformed him into a stag, whereupon he was torn in pieces and devoured by his own dogs [92] ephesian artemis. the ephesian artemis, known to us as "diana of the ephesians" was a very ancient asiatic divinity of persian origin called metra,[33] whose worship the greek colonists found already established, when they first settled in asia minor, and whom they identified with their own greek artemis, though she really possessed but one single attribute in common with their home deity. metra was a twofold divinity, and represented, in one phase of her character, all-pervading love; in the o

whom he resigned his throne and kingdom [286] page 318 when paris arrived at sparta, and sought hospitality at the royal palace, he was kindly received by king menelaus. at the banquet given in his honour, he charmed both host and hostess by his graceful manner and varied accomplishments, and specially ingratiated himself with the fair helen, to whom he presented some rare and chaste trinkets of asiatic manufacture. whilst paris was still a guest at the court of the king of sparta, the latter received an invitation from his friend idomeneus, king of crete, to join him in a hunting expedition; and menelaus, being of an unsuspicious and easy temperament, accepted the invitation, leaving to helen the duty of entertaining the distinguished stranger. captivated by her surpassing loveliness, th

RUBY TABLET OF SET

hy of hedonistic ethics that considered calmness untroubled by mental or emotional disquiet the highest good, held intellectual pleasures superior to others, and advocated the renunciation of momentary gratification in favor of more permanent pleasures. it was introduced by [and named after] epicurus of samos (341-270 bce, and it enjoyed considerable influence among the greek civilizations of the asiatic coasts. epicurus, a pantheist who rejected conventional religion, felt that the aim of philosophy should be to free humanity from fear of the gods, who, if they exist, are too remote to concern themselves with human fortunes. he rejected metaphysics, holding that humans can know nothing of the suprasensual world. reason, he said, must accept the evidence of the senses. epicurus considered

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

his years in the east, gardner turned his attention to local customs, religions, and supernatural and magical beliefs. he studied ritual weapons and the malay kris, a type of dagger with a wave-shaped blade. his first published work, kris and other malay weapons, resulted from this interest. he conducted original research into the early civilizations of malaya (now malaysia, writing for the royal asiatic society journal and becoming an expert on the native people of malaya. he mounted archaeological expeditions in search of lost cities of the east. gardner was able to finance his work with the income he made from the rubber trade. gardner retired at age fifty-two and returned to england with his wife, whom he had married in 1927. they settled in the south of england, in the area known as n

SET IN EGYPTIAN THEOLOGY

s came to be emphasized rather than their primal union. set's battle with horus the elder grew from being a statement of the duality of day and night into an expression of the political conflict among the polytheistic priesthoods for control of the egyptian theocracy. this was rewritten as a battle between good and evil after egypt expelled the hyskos in the 18th dynasty. some say the hyskos were asiatic invaders, and others say they were an indigenous minority that seized control of the nation. this tribe ruled egypt for a time and happened to favor the set cult, seeing a resemblence to a storm-god of their own pantheon. the set cult never recovered from this identification with the hyskos. mages of set were destroyed or defaced. by the time greek historians visited egypt, wild asses, pig

THE GALE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE UNUSUAL UNEXPLAINED VOL 3

that among various ancient peoples it was customary to keep the bride hidden from her future husband until the day of the wedding. in egypt, for instance, the groom was not permitted to see the face of his bride until the marriage ceremony when he engaged in the solemn ritual of uncovering her visage. the same sort of custom was observed among the arabs, the indians, and among other european and asiatic peoples. it has been a custom for brides to wear gloves since the time of ancient egypt. in egyptian hieroglyphics, the glove is the symbol of the hand. the word itself signifies to give, to honor. the something blue that brides are told to wear during their wedding is a tradition borrowed from the ancient israelites when young women were advised to place upon the borders of their fringed

THE GOD OF THE WITCHES

he art of taking cover that they were seldom seen unlessthey so desired. their dwelling-places were built of stone, wattle or turf, and were in bee-hive form, andhere whole families lived together as in an eskimo igloo. it is not impossible that the houses were in use inthe winter only, and the fairy people lived entirely out of doors in the summer. for similar conditions of lifethe people of the asiatic steppes afford the best parallel.like the people of the steppe the fairies appear to have lived chiefly on the milk of their herds, with anoccasional orgy of a meat feast. in this they differed completely from the agriculturists who inhabited themore fertile parts of the country. the immense difference in physique caused by the introduction of grain intothe regular diet of mankind is hardl

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

ave been a hexagon, and stukeley a section of an ellipsis. the position of the altar is merely conjectural; wherefore i have omitted it; and i much doubt whether either be right in their plans of the cell, which seems, as in other druidical temples, to have been meant for a circle, but incorrectly executed. of priapus 67 still the ruins of the identical temple described by hecat us, who, being an asiatic greek, might have received his information from some phoenician merchant, who had visited the interior parts of britain when trading there for tin. macrobius mentions a temple of the same kind and form upon mount zilmissus in thrace, dedicated to the sun under the title of bacchus sebazius.1 the large obeliscs of stone found in many parts of the north, such as those at rudstone,2 and near

ndid actions, were supposed to have a larger share of the divine essence, and were therefore adored as gods, and honoured with divine titles, expressive of that particular attribute of the deity with which they seemed to be most favoured. new personages were thus enrolled among the allegorical deities; and the personified attributes of the sun were confounded with a cretan and thessalian king, an asiatic conqueror, and a theban robber. hence pindar, who appears to have been a very orthodox heathen, says, that the race of men and gods is one, that both breathe from one mother, and only differ in power.1 this confusion of epithets and titles contributed, as much as any thing, to raise that vast and extravagant fabric of poetical mythology, which, in a manner, overwhelmed the ancient theology

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